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American imaginaries : nations, societies, and capitalism in the many Americas

- Smith, Jeremy

Authors: Smith, Jeremy
Date: 2022
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Relation: Social Imaginaries
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Description: American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean. The book will appeal to scholars and students of history, Atlantic studies, comparative and historical sociology, and social theory. In addition, it will gain audiences amongst academics and graduate students who follow debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries.

Model predictive control for microgrids : from power electronic converters to energy management

- Hu, Jiefeng, Guerrero, Josep, Islam, Syed

Authors: Hu, Jiefeng , Guerrero, Josep , Islam, Syed
Date: 2021
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Relation: IET Energy Engineering Series, Vol. 199
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Description: Microgrids have emerged as a promising solution for accommodating the integration of renewable energy resources. But the intermittency of renewable generation is posing challenges such as voltage/frequency fluctuations, and grid stability issues in grid-connected modes. Model predictive control (MPC) is a method for controlling a process while satisfying a set of constraints. It has been in use for chemical plants and in oil refineries since the 1980s, but in recent years has been deployed for power systems and electronics as well. This concise work for researchers, engineers and graduate students focuses on the use of MPC for distributed renewable power generation in microgrids. Fluctuating outputs from renewable energy sources and variable load demands are covered, as are control design concepts. The authors provide examples and case studies to validate the theory with both simulation and experimental results and review the shortcomings and future developments. Chapters treat power electronic converters and control; modelling and hierarchical control of microgrids; use of MPC for PV and wind power; voltage support; parallel PV-ESS microgrids; secondary restoration capability; and tertiary power flow optimization. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2021.

Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement

- Golding, Barry

Authors: Golding, Barry
Date: 2021
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Description: "Men's - and now Women's and Community - Sheds are meeting many people's acute, unmet needs arising, largely, out of a lack of paid work and retirement, and the void of meaninglessness that can arise as a result. Offering its readers an informative and insightful view of a growing grassroots movement, this timely book shows how the Shed movement, far from contracting, is nimbly and rapidly responding to the needs of communities during the global crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. From the humblest of beginnings in Australia, the movement today has evolved to total almost 3,000 Sheds worldwide"

Aradale : the making of a haunted asylum

- Waldron, David, Waldron, Sharn, Buchanan, Nathaniel

Authors: Waldron, David , Waldron, Sharn , Buchanan, Nathaniel
Date: 2020
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Description: First built in 1867, the remarkable Gothic structure of the former Ararat Lunatic Asylum, colloquially known as Aradale, has overlooked the regional town of Ararat for over 150 years. Throughout its history it has seen remarkable transformations in the history of Australian psychiatry and western society's treatment of the mentally ill, and it has participated in some of their darkest scandals. Today in popular press, the labyrinthine complex is commonly acclaimed as 'Australia's most haunted building' and is home to a flourishing dark tourism industry boasting tens of thousands of visitors a year. This book explores the history of the former asylum, and examines what is it that makes a place 'haunted' in the popular imagination, and what it is about hauntings that so invariably connects them with problematic histories.

Bravo Brown!: The correspondence of Charles Henry Brown - aeronaut

- FitzSimons, Terence

Authors: FitzSimons, Terence
Date: 2020
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Description: As an aeronaut, Brown's lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with only limited success he was, however, determined to record his contribution to the science, and from an early stage established a vital correspondence with a number of leading figures in the world of ballooning. The letters provide insights into the developing field of aeronautics, and reveal the tensions, rivalries and downright underhand conduct of some of the pioneers of aviation. Brown's intention was to publish his collected correspondence, but his failure to fully realise his own lifelong ambition as an aeronaut of note led him in despair to take his life before he achieved his objective of bringing the compiled correspondence to print. The manuscript was later recovered by a relative and deposited at the State Library of Victoria where it sat receiving but scant attention until now. © Peter Lang AG 2020. All rights reserved.

Cross-cultural design for healthy ageing

- Scharoun, Lisa, Hills, Danny, Montana-Hoyos, Carlos, Peng, Fanke, Sung, Vivien

Authors: Scharoun, Lisa , Hills, Danny , Montana-Hoyos, Carlos , Peng, Fanke , Sung, Vivien
Date: 2020
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Description: We wrote this book as a compilation of many years of research and pedagogical experiences around cross-cultural and multidisciplinary design for healthy ageing. In it, we combine different voices and perspectives, including descriptions of several cross-cultural design for healthy ageing workshops conducted with students from design and nursing disciplines in different Australasian locations. These experiences are described in detail, offering a roadmap and many ideas for readers to build upon. Literature reviews and background research inform these practical experiences, which were then used to develop new theory and insights around the topics, mainly from academic and pedagogic points of view. The multiplicity of voices of student participants in the workshops provides a more personalised account of these experiences, while our reflections highlight the pedagogic and life-changing value of these experiences. We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers based mainly in Australia. Initially, a majority of the team members met while working at the University of Canberra (UC), with specialties in nursing, graphic design, industrial design, and fashion design, all from different cultural backgrounds and with interests in health and healthy ageing. Building on research undertaken with several study tours of Australian students from design and nursing to various Asian countries, mainly China and Singapore, and through collaborations with numerous partners including higher education institutions in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the research team explored the multi-layered relationships between design and healthy ageing. "From Introduction"

Feminist institutionalism and gendered bureaucracies : forestry governance in Nepal

- Wagle, Radha, Pillay, Soma, Wright, Wendy

Authors: Wagle, Radha , Pillay, Soma , Wright, Wendy
Date: 2020
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Relation: Feminist Institutionalism and Gendered Bureaucracies: Forestry Governance in Nepal
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Description: This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal’s forestry bureaucracy. The book adopts a “gender lens” drawn from feminist institutionalism and is framed around the following four objectives: evaluating the effectiveness of current legislative and policy frameworks for the inclusion of women in the Nepalese forest bureaucracy; examining the dynamics of organizational culture, formal and informal institutions, and structure and agency in and around forest bureaucracy in Nepal; assessing power relations in forestry institutions focusing on influential participation of women forestry professionals in the bureaucratic structure; and gaining insights about the alternative space of feminist institutionalism in connection with women inclusive forest bureaucracy. Findings in the book inform and extend feminist institutionalism perspectives by applying it to a context which remains under explored, providing insights on the efficacy of public sector cultural change, especially as it relates to those areas within bureaucracies less in a position to adopt the changes mandated by society and principles of good governance. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.

Sahara : Piercing the thatch Ceiling

- Watts, Mimmie

Authors: Watts, Mimmie
Date: 2020
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Description: Sahara, Piercing the Thatch Ceiling' narrates the story and journey of Sahara, a composite character through an intersectional gender lens. It is an intercultural, African, intergenerational, migrant, refugee and an Australian story. The characters in this book have to navigate trials and obstacles experienced across the whole spectrum of the African diaspora from skilled migrants to refugees.Yet it is a story of ultimate triumph, thanks to the collective power of this group of women, the strength of their relationships, the will to persist through any hardship, and the determination to succeed. Cultural elements are woven through the stories in a way that gleans understanding while letting the narrative flow. In the humanweaknesses and strengths that it reveals, Sahara and her friends and other characters in the book embrace the migrant dream.

"My Country all gone the white men have stolen it" : The invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870

- Cahir, David (Fred)

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred)
Date: 2019
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Description: "The Wadawurrung are the Aboriginal people whose Country includes the cities now known as Ballarat and Geelong. Fred Cahir examines the contact history in the period 1800-1870 of the Wadawurrung and the ngamadjidj (generally translated as white stranger belonging to the sea). Divided into chronological and thematic section, the book chronicles three waves of invasion: the early invasion period incorporating trespassers predominately from the sea, the sheepherders or squatters who followed in their wake and usurped the Wadawurrung of all their Country for sheep runs, and the third wave of invaders - the gold seekers. This historical study is transformative as it presents a compelling argument of how the Wadawurrung were active agents of change and sought cultural enrichment in the midst of the frontier war on their Country." --back cover.

A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf : adapted for the stage by Peta Hanrahan

- Hanrahan, Peta

Authors: Hanrahan, Peta
Date: 2019
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Description: A Room of one's own by Virginia Woolf is a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf?s classic essay of the same name, first delivered as a series of lectures in 1928, then published as an essay in 1929. In Peta Hanrahan?s dynamic version, four actors (three women and one man) play aspects of Virginia Woolf?s mind in conversation with herself and the audience. It's playful and energetic, as well as gentle and questioning. The piece both debates and reflects on the history of gender disparity, while keeping Woolf?s striking use of metaphor and charming humour alive.

A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf, adapted for the stage by Peta Hanrahan

- Hanrahan, Peta

Authors: Hanrahan, Peta
Date: 2019
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Description: A Room of one?s own by Virginia Woolf is a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf?s classic essay of the same name, first delivered as a series of lectures in 1928, then published as an essay in 1929. In Peta Hanrahan?s dynamic version, four actors (three women and one man) play aspects of Virginia Woolf?s mind in conversation with herself and the audience. It's playful and energetic, as well as gentle and questioning. The piece both debates and reflects on the history of gender disparity, while keeping Woolf?s striking use of metaphor and charming humour alive.

Australian war graves workers and World War One; Devoted labour for the lost the unknown but not forgotten dead

- Cahir, David (Fred), Weuffen, Sara, Smith, Matt, Bakker, Peter, Caminiti, Jo

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Weuffen, Sara , Smith, Matt , Bakker, Peter , Caminiti, Jo
Date: 2019
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Description: This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachment and the Australian Graves Service who worked in the period 1919 to 1922 to ensure that grieving families in Australia had a physical grave which they could mourn the loss of their loved ones. By presenting biographical vignettes of eight men who undertook this work, the book examines the mechanics of the commemoration of the Great War and extends our understanding of the individual toll this onerous task took on the workers themselves.

Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations

- Plowright, Susan, Green, Monica, Johnson, Nicola

Authors: Plowright, Susan , Green, Monica , Johnson, Nicola
Date: 2019
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Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations
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Description: This book showcases a compilation of research partnerships produced by the Federation University Gippsland School of Education. Through this book, readers will gain valuable insights into how education research initiatives can help adapt to an age characterized by massive regional/global economic, environmental, identity, cultural and social shifts. The respective chapters address the universal human and researcher condition in a regional setting, highlighting how individuals and groups are seeking to achieve transformation with their regional, educational research. On the whole, the compilation showcases a specific university in a regional context that is now responding to change by rejuvenating, reinventing, re-envisioning and rethinking its research, its identity and its relationality. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved. All rights are reserved.

Effect of faults on stability of partially saturated rock slope

- You, Greg, Jaggi, Nav, Al Mandalawi, Maged, Dowling, Kim, Dahlhaus, Peter

Authors: You, Greg , Jaggi, Nav , Al Mandalawi, Maged , Dowling, Kim , Dahlhaus, Peter
Date: 2019
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Relation: Deep Rock Mechanics : From Research to Engineering
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Description: The effect of three faults on the slope stability was studied for the Stage 1 open pit in an open cut mine in Australia. The faults were treated as joints using Barton's method, and the slope was under dry and partially saturated conditions. A finite element program in RocScience was used in the study, where the generalized Hoek-Brown criterion was employed for rock mass and the Mohr-coulomb criterion for the faults. It is found that the factor of safety of the slope decreased with the introduction of the fault structures. Furthermore, the fault structures created higher stress concentrations zones at the ends of the faults.

Governance and multiculturalism; The White elephant of social construction and cultural identities

- Koerner, Catherine, Pillay, Soma

Authors: Koerner, Catherine , Pillay, Soma
Date: 2019
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Description: A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness. Informed by insights from white Australians in rural contexts, Koerner and Pillay attempt to answer how race shapes those who identify as white Australian; how those who self-identify thusly relate to the nation, multiculturalism, and Indigenous Sovereignties; and how white Australians understand and experience their own racialized position and its privilege. This “insider perspective” on the continuing construction of whiteness in Australia is analyzed and challenged through Indigenous Sovereign theoretical standpoints and voices. Ultimately, this investigation of the social construction of race not only extends conceptualizations of multiculturalism, but also informs governance policy in the light of changing national identity.

Located research: regional places, transitions and challenges

- Campbell, Angela, Duffy, Michelle, Edmondson, Beth

Authors: Campbell, Angela , Duffy, Michelle , Edmondson, Beth
Date: 2019
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Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges
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Description: This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of co-design and transdisciplinary practice to build communities of practice in response to lived experience in regional contexts. Their work highlights the strategic importance of a regional focus at a time when global connectivity and mobility is increasing and the complexity of ‘wicked’ problems demands more than one approach or solution. Such complex problems require nuanced, and at times ‘bespoke’ methodological approaches to better understand and support not just regional adaptation, resilience and transformation, but to manage all these things at a time when change is everywhere. © The Author(s) 2020.

Mental health policy, practice, and service accessibility in contemporary society

- Martin, Jennifer

Authors: Martin, Jennifer
Date: 2019
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Description: Mental health and wellbeing has become an increasingly important issue that impacts communities in multiple ways. A critical discussion on the understanding and access of mental health services by people from diverse backgrounds is important to improving global healthcare practices in modern society. Mental Health Policy, Practice, and Service Accessibility in Contemporary Society provides innovative insights into contemporary and future issues within the field of mental healthcare. The content within this publication represents the work of medical funding, social inclusion, and social work education. It is a vital reference source for post-graduate students, medical researchers, psychology professionals, sociologists, and academicians seeking coverage on topics centered on improving future practices in mental health and wellbeing.

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